Abu Hassan al-Maghrebi

Abu Hassan al-Maghrebi (22 July 1978-18 September 2014) was a fighter of the Islamic State. Born in Mauretania, Abu Hassan al-Maghrebi was a veteran of "Islamic conflicts" in Morocco, Afghanistan, and Syria.

Biography
Abu Hassan al-Maghrebi was born in Mauretania on 22 July 1978 to an ethnic Moorish family who followed strict Islam. Raised in a village in the north of the country, he volunteered to fight in Western Sahara alongside the Polisario Front in what he saw as an Islamic war against the United States-backed Morocco. He gained experience in firing an AK-47 and using bombs, and this experience proved invaluable during his later career.

Hassan returned home in 1999, and was praised by his family for his duties. However, he returned to the field of duty when Afghanistan was invaded by the United States and United Kingdom in 2001 and was initiated into Al-Qaeda. Hassan was responsible for an ambush on an American convoy at Bakhmala (part of Paktika Province) in early 2014, and the 58th Pararescue had to intervene to save the troops.

In later 2014, Maghrebi left Afghanistan for Iraq to assist in the war against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-ruled government of Fuad Masum. Hassan enlisted in the Islamic State and fought against the Iraqi and Syrian governments in the Syro-Arabian Desert regions, assisting in guerrilla warfare. Hassan was assassinated by a targeted missile along with 22 others in an attack on an ISIS convoy by US drones near the city of Raqqa.